![]() ![]() The novel is controversial for its anti-natalist undertones, which have been interpreted as supporting the views of Caldwell’s eugenicist father, Ira Caldwell, who argued for the sterilization of poor whites in Georgia in 1930. ![]() The novel’s main character is Jeester Lester, a morally corrupt and ignorant man who experiences a change of heart when he learns to respect the land and people who make his life possible. Many of the characters commit brutal and reckless acts in the process. The Lesters and their neighbors strive to build a brighter future as the cotton picking market is absorbed by advances in industrial technology and the increasing urbanization of Georgia. Set in rural Georgia on the outskirts of the city of Augusta, it concerns a family of impoverished white sharecroppers, the Lesters, who struggle economically during the Great Depression. ![]() Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by American author Erskine Caldwell. ![]()
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6/7/2023 04:56:52 am
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